Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (left), the European Commission chief José Manuel Barroso (right) and Ethiopia's prime minister Meles Zenawi give a press conference at the Bella centre. The Ethiopian prime minister, as head of the African group, has proposed a compromise of $50bn (£44bn) a year by 2015 for poor countries to adapt to climate change and $100bn (£89bn) by 2020

The US senator John Kerry speaks at a press conference in the Bella centre. In a heavily attended speech, Kerry, who is leading the effort to get a climate change bill through the Senate, said he was '100% certain' of success – if countries at Copenhagen managed to cut a deal

U.N. climate chief Yvo De Boer, left, speaks with a member of an NGO's during a activists' sit in at the venue of the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Wednesday Dec. 16, 2009. Activists, upset with the fact that many NGO's were not granted access to the meeting center, hoped to disrupt a major plenary with world leaders. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Prince Charles speaks at the opening session of the high-level segment of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. The Prince of Wales warned climate negotiators that the 'eyes of the world' are on them and that 'our planet has reached a point of crisis'